Combined runner and tip-retainer



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I P. R. WYLIE. COMBINED RUNNER AND TIP RETAINER.

Patented Apr. 25, 1893,

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Patented Apr. 25, 1893,

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICE.

PARKER R. WYLIE, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINED RUNNER A-ND TIP-RETAINER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 496,029, dated April25, 1893.

Application filed September 24, 1891. Serial No. 406,697- (llo model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PARKER R. WYLIE, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inUmbrella-Runner Tubes, of which the following, taken in connection withthe accompanying drawings, is a specification.

The object of my present invention is to cheaply produce a permanent,convenient and adaptable device to umbrella runner tubes, and itspurpose is to easily confine and quickly liberate the terminals of theumbrella ribs, in a manner and to the end that the folds of the fabric,with their attached ribs, may lie more compactly than through the use ofthe confining tape or band, as at present universally in use.

My present invention embraces certain novel and useful features notexisting therein, and I therefore consider it an improvement thereupon.The function of the several parts, their construction and cooperationwill be readily comprehended through reference to the drawingshereuntoannexed,formingapart of this specification, wherein similar lettersindicate corresponding features throughout the several views.

In said drawings, Figure 1, exhibits the application of my invention toan umbrella, confining the ribs or terminals thereof, Fig. 2, being aplan of the immediate portion embracing said terminals, eliminated fromother features of the invention. Fig. 3, designates a transverseenlarged section of the assembled parts, on dotted line 33 of Fig. 4,Fig. 4, exhibiting the same in longitudinal section.

Referring to the letters, A, designates an umbrella in part, havingattached to its staff 13, my improved runner and rib retainer broadlyindicated as C, the components being clearly illustrated and hereinafterdescribed in the remaining views.

I will proceed in the description of the various parts from the staifB,outwardly. Surrounding the latter, then, I place the runnertube D, whichterminates near the bottom of the retainer with an upset annularprojecting rim or bead F, forming a shoulder or stop for therib-retainer C, in its lowest position, and also at the bottom withbearings F for the stretchers 1 The abutting collar or bead arrestingits upward movement is shown at G, surrounding said runner-tube D, towhich it is confined in the manner shown at E, or it may be constructedintegral with the runnertube. Below said collar G, is a correspondingcollar or tube G, which slides upon the tube D, and which is integralwith the retainer C, moving, of course, with it. The further purpose ofthis feature G, is to fill the space intervening between the runner-tubeD, and the retainer proper C, in a manner to leave between the adjacentrims of the latter and the collar G, a circular chamber, wherein reststhe expansion spring H, the office of which is to force the retainer C,down upon the annular rim or shoulder F, while confining the terminalsshown at I. To actuate the part C, I form its upper end into thesemi-circular, or other convenient form, as exhibited at C Forconvenience in manipulating my retainer, it may be desirable to suspendthe action of the spring I-I, momentarily, while aggrouping saidterminals. This I accomplish by any of the well known expedients,preferably the bayonet-lock illustrated wherein the depression J, formsa vertical and horizontal connected rest within the inside face of theretainer C adapted to receive a stop-pin J springing from, and attachedto the runner tube piece D, in a manner to hold said part 0 above theterminals momentarily, as previously stated, by raising the retainer andcausing said pin to move into the horizontal rest J by rotatingsufficiently the retainer surrounding said tube piece. In construct ingthat portion adapted to receive the rib tips, I design the walls K,forming said openings, to be of metal, that will yield in such a mannerthat the terminals I, may enter through the mouths L, when pressure isexerted upon them outwardly, or down through the openings M, if thepressure on the re-' tainer is in the opposite direction, the walls K,having sufficient yielding elasticity to admit said terminals in eitherdirection. In liberating them simultaneously, manual pressure in thedirection of the handle retracts the spring H, the walls K, yielding asbefore described, and the openings are with,

drawn from the ribs or terminals. The ad vantage of thus restraining theends of the against which spring the retainer may be retracted, andmeans for retaining the said retainer in its retracted position.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 2lstday of September, A.D. 1891.

PARKER R. WYLIE.

Witnesses:

EMMONS K. WYLIE, HATTIE E. BLAKE.

